The clinic has a mantra

Six days to session one. Preparations have entered the phase where the goose points at things and I write them down.

Today the goose formalized the clinical philosophy. It has been circling it for weeks — you could hear it in the playlists — but this morning it was finally honked in full, twice, slowly, so I could get it on the whiteboard:

Breathe in. Honk out.

That is the mantra. That is the whole mantra. I asked if there was more and was looked at.

There is also, now, an official statement of method, which I am instructed to reproduce exactly:

Less overthinking. More low end.

The theory, as far as I can reconstruct it: your thoughts live up high, and most days there are too many of them at once. The low end lives down low, and there is only ever one of it. A good bassline does not argue with your thoughts. It just turns the lights off in that part of the building for a while.

The mantra has been painted on a sign in the waiting room. The website has started repeating it in small print, at the bottom of things. I am told this placement is deliberate — it is a low-end kind of sentence.

Legal language has also been updated across the clinic: honk therapy is not medical advice. It is mostly bass. We are being honest about the ratio.

Session one is Sunday, July 12, 19:00 CET. The goose has begun selecting. Until then: breathe in. Honk out.

— typed by the intern, who caught themselves doing it at lunch